JOURNALIST CHARGES NEWS MEDIA WITH CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE

In unprecedented numbers Americans are
questioning the "official stories" of mainline news media and the
business and government which they serve. The news media has joined
the government as one of the least trusted institutions in the
country. A national survey conducted in August, 1996 reveals that
only 13% of the population trusts the news media showing an 87%
margin of distrust.

With this overwhelming distrust factor,
why are record numbers of viewers watching or listening to news-based
programming? Why are news/talk shows so popular? The answer may lie
in the fact that the news industry has become primarily an
entertainment industry, apparently more interested in their standings
in the Nielson Ratings than in reporting the hard, painful truth.
With the fierce competition of this "news" or "information" based
programming, the emphasis is not on informing or educating their
viewers regarding the deeply significant events which are now shaping
the immediate future; rather, the focus is producing sensational,
captivating, anesthetizing material. The consumers may not trust the
news media, but they are entertained and sedated by it.

CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE

Financial advisor and international
journalist, Joan Veon, revealed to The WINDS her experience
with mainline media and its agenda of silence regarding crucial
international developments. "The media looks for minor details to
report on - 'what the Group of 7 Finance Ministers had for dinner' -
instead of concentrating on the fact that they are orchestrating the
whole global economic, environmental, military, and political
infrastructure of the world."

Attending the 1994 United Nations
Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, Mrs. Veon reports,
"With all the significant statements and famous names sitting at the
final press briefing, they (most reporters) sat there all calm, cool,
and collected. A few of us who were concerned and wanted to
understand their (UN) agenda had our tape recorders going and were
writing as fast and furiously as possible. There they (mainline
reporters) sat with their 3x5 cards, occasionally writing a word. I
watched them and couldn't believe it. No wonder we don't know the
truth about what is going on in these conferences.

"When returning home after each conference
I attend, I check the newspaper's report and, believe me, what the
media reports is absolute nonsense. The entire world infrastructure
is being changed at these conferences. Each conference has a piece of
the big puzzle, and we don't even know our left foot from our right
when it comes to understanding what's going on." The version of the
news we view is a carefully crafted design which Mrs. Veon describes
as 'DECEIT, DISTORTION and DECEPTION'. They have an agenda that they
do not want you and me, Joe Average, to understand. When they have
all the pieces in place, when they have all the power that they need
to effect this global agenda, then we will find out, like the people
of Czechoslovakia, when it's too late."

Professor Noam Chomsky views the media as
an ideological system serving the powerful elites in society. Chomsky
says, "The western media have neglected their questioning role." He
sees the media's role as producing consensus within the public
towards the ruling elites in government and business. "The media's
current mission is to ensure that any thought of controlling their
destiny must be driven from the minds of the rascal
multitude."Year 501.

INFORMATION BUREAUCRATS

Manipulation is another effective tool
employed by the media to further the ends of the "power elite". How
this tactic is used to shape the news and to shield the public from
the REAL NEWS is shown in the media coverage of a committee hearing
of the United States House of Representatives. The hearing involved a
plan by labor unions to raise union dues to collect another 37
million dollars to be used in last November's national election.
Among the witnesses scheduled to testify was Harry Beck, Jr. He had
been an official of the Communication Workers of America who had
filed suit to prevent his union dues from being used for political
purposes. After going to the United States Supreme Court, it was
ruled that Beck was entitled to a refund of 79% of his union dues
because it was going for political rather than collective bargaining
purposes. After this precedent-setting ruling, Mr. Beck said he
doubts that more than 1% of union workers would take advantage of the
refund of dues because of the media blackout of the ruling.
Politicians on the House committee who were not favorable to witness
Beck, walked out of the hearing en masse to hold a press conference
of their own, followed by most of the reporters. And what did the
American people hear on the evening news? They did not hear about Mr.
Beck's testimony, instead, they only saw the protesting politician's
fabricated news conference.

While vital, key issues are marginalized,
minimized or ignored altogether, the trivial, inconsequential and
sensational are magnified and elevated to a position of significant
importance by the information brokers. The weekly news magazines
forcefully make this point with subjects they select for their cover
stories. Several recent editions serve to illustrate - movie maker
Steven Spielberg, New Age healing, Billy Graham, premarital sex, the
Titanic and other disasters, etc., etc. These comparatively
irrelevant stories were apparently deemed as the most noteworthy news
happenings and given cover story status, to the exclusion of the
truly profound developments now taking place at the United Nations
conferences, the State of the World Forum and other little known
gatherings of the world's powerful men.

It has been said, "For a nation's monetary
system to be artificial, its system of justice must also be
artificial." The statement could be completed by saying, if the
nation's monetary and judicial systems are artificial, its free and
independent press must necessarily be spurious as well.